BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Prague Literary Calendar - ECPv6.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Prague Literary Calendar X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Prague Literary Calendar REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Prague BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260506T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260506T223000 DTSTAMP:20260513T191657 CREATED:20260423T154702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260505T093341Z UID:12726-1778095800-1778106600@pragueliterarycalendar.com SUMMARY:Poetry Talks Prague - Good Enough DESCRIPTION:We will read and discuss the poems at the bottom. \nEmail: contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com\nFacebook: Post to this event page.\nSubmissions will be shared on the Prague Literary Calendar for our group to read and discuss. \nI’ve put this event to happen at a cafe\, I simply just book a table a day or so before the event. If you do want to come please write in anyway you can to Lydia Titterington\, so that I can make sure we have enough room for you. If there are too many people I will need to change the location. \nAbout Poetry Talks Prague\nPoetry Talks Prague brings people from all backgrounds together. We use poetry to find tools for the hardships of life. The discussion guides us to different directions; you do not need to be proficient in poetry\, just be curious and open. We welcome all people who respect others\, if you have any questions\, you can write to contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com \n___________________________ \n\n\n\nPersonal Poem By Frank O’Hara \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNow when I walk around at lunchtime\nI have only two charms in my pocket\nan old Roman coin Mike Kanemitsu gave me\nand a bolt-head that broke off a packing case\nwhen I was in Madrid the others never\nbrought me too much luck though they did\nhelp keep me in New York against coercion\nbut now I’m happy for a time and interested\n\nI walk through the luminous humidity\npassing the House of Seagram with its wet\nand its loungers and the construction to\nthe left that closed the sidewalk if\nI ever get to be a construction worker\nI’d like to have a silver hat please\nand get to Moriarty’s where I wait for\nLeRoi and hear who wants to be a mover and\nshaker the last five years my batting average\nis .016 that’s that\, and LeRoi comes in\nand tells me Miles Davis was clubbed 12\ntimes last night outside birdland by a cop\na lady asks us for a nickel for a terrible\ndisease but we don’t give her one we\ndon’t like terrible diseases\, then\n\nwe go eat some fish and some ale it’s\ncool but crowded we don’t like Lionel Trilling\nwe decide\, we like Don Allen we don’t like\nHenry James so much we like Herman Melville\nwe don’t want to be in the poets’ walk in\nSan Francisco even we just want to be rich\nand walk on girders in our silver hats\nI wonder if one person out of the 8\,000\,000 is\nthinking of me as I shake hands with LeRoi\nand buy a strap for my wristwatch and go\nback to work happy at the thought possibly so\n__________________________________ \n\n\n\nOn a Walk By Heather Christle\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy child is upset that they cannot jump over their shadow.\nThey want me to help them. They want me to teach them\nhow it’s done. The best I can do is an invitation\n\nto jump over each other’s shadows instead. This satisfies them\nfor a moment and then the moment is gone. In sunlight\nmy shadow loves to give me a little dose of sorrow\,\n\nthe beams having traveled so far only for the lump of me\nto get between them and the ground. They came so close.\nIf I were the earth I would resent me too. My child\n\nhas gone into the next moment. I have to catch up. They say\nthey are riding a horse. They point and it drags them away.\n___________________________________________ \n\n\n\nLearning the Trees By Howard Nemerov \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBefore you can learn the trees\, you have to learn\nThe language of the trees. That’s done indoors\,\nOut of a book\, which now you think of it\nIs one of the transformations of a tree.\n\nThe words themselves are a delight to learn\,\nYou might be in a foreign land of terms\nLike samara\, capsule\, drupe\, legume and pome\,\nWhere bark is papery\, plated\, warty or smooth.\n\nBut best of all are the words that shape the leaves—\nOrbicular\, cordate\, cleft and reniform—\nAnd their venation—palmate and parallel—\nAnd tips—acute\, truncate\, auriculate.\n\nSufficiently provided\, you may now\nGo forth to the forests and the shady streets\nTo see how the chaos of experience\nAnswers to catalogue and category.\n\nConfusedly. The leaves of a single tree\nMay differ among themselves more than they do\nFrom other species\, so you have to find\,\nAll blandly says the book\, “an average leaf.”\n\nExample\, the catalpa in the book\nSprays out its leaves in whorls of three\nAround the stem; the one in front of you\nBut rarely does\, or somewhat\, or almost;\n\nMaybe it’s not catalpa? Dreadful doubt.\nIt may be weeks before you see an elm\nFanlike in form\, a spruce that pyramids\,\nA sweetgum spiring up in steeple shape.\n\nStill\, pedetemtim as Lucretius says\,\nLittle by little\, you do start to learn;\nAnd learn as well\, maybe\, what language does\nAnd how it does it\, cutting across the world\n\nNot always at the joints\, competing with\nExperience while cooperating with\nExperience\, and keeping an obstinate\nIntransigence\, uncanny\, of its own.\n\nThink finally about the secret will\nPretending obedience to Nature\, but\nInvidiously distinguishing everywhere\,\nDividing up the world to conquer it\,\n\nAnd think also how funny knowledge is:\nYou may succeed in learning many trees\nAnd calling off their names as you go by\,\nBut their comprehensive silence stays the same.\n______________________________________ \n\n\n\nI Am an Atheist Who Says His Prayers By Karl Shapiro \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI am an atheist who says his prayers.\n\nI am an anarchist\, and a full professor at that. I take the loyalty oath.\n\nI am a deviate. I fondle and contribute\, backscuttle and brown\, father of three.\n\nI stand high in the community. My name is in Who’s Who. People argue about my modesty.\n\nI drink my share and yours and never have enough. I free-load officially and unofficially.\n\nA physical coward\, I take on all intellectuals\, established poets\, popes\, rabbis\, chiefs of staff.\n\nI am a mystic. I will take an oath that I have seen the Virgin. Under the dry pandanus\, to the scratching of kangaroo rats\, I achieve psychic onanism. My tree of nerves electrocutes itself.\n\nI uphold the image of America and force my luck. I write my own ticket to oblivion.\n\nI am of the race wrecked by success. The audience brings me news of my death. I write out of boredom\, despise solemnity. The wrong reason is good enough for me.\n\nI am of the race of the prematurely desperate. In poverty of comfort I lay gunpowder plots. I lapse my insurance.\n\nI am the Babbitt metal of the future. I never read more than half of a book. But that half I read forever.\n\nI love the palimpsest\, statues without heads\, fertility dolls of the continent of Mu. I dream prehistory\, the invention of dye. The palms of the dancers’ hands are vermillion. Their heads oscillate like the cobra. High-caste woman smelling of earth and silk\, you can dry my feet with your hair.\n\nI take my place beside the Philistine and unfold my napkin. This afternoon I defend the Marines. I goggle at long cars.\n\nWithout compassion I attack the insane. Give them the horsewhip!\n\nThe homosexual lectures me brilliantly in the beer booth. I can feel my muscles soften. He smiles at my terror.\n\nPitchpots flicker in the lemon groves. I gaze down on the plains of Hollywood. My fine tan and my arrogance\, my gray hair and my sneakers\, O Israel!\n\nWherever I am I become. The power of entry is with me. In the doctor’s office a patient\, calm and humiliated. In the foreign movies a native\, shabby enough. In the art gallery a person of authority (there’s a secret way of approaching a picture. Others move off). The high official insults me to my face. I say nothing and accept the job. He offers me whiskey.\n\nHow beautifully I fake! I convince myself with men’s room jokes and epigrams. I paint myself into a corner and escape on pulleys of the unknown. Whatever I think at the moment is true. Turn me around in my tracks; I will take your side.\n\nFor the rest\, I improvise and am not spiteful and water the plants on the cocktail table.\n\n\n\n\n\n______________________________________________ \n\n\n\nMother to Son By Langston Hughes \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWell\, son\, I’ll tell you:\nLife for me ain’t been no crystal stair.\nIt’s had tacks in it\,\nAnd splinters\,\nAnd boards torn up\,\nAnd places with no carpet on the floor—\nBare.\nBut all the time\nI’se been a-climbin’ on\,\nAnd reachin’ landin’s\,\nAnd turnin’ corners\,\nAnd sometimes goin’ in the dark\nWhere there ain’t been no light.\nSo boy\, don’t you turn back.\nDon’t you set down on the steps\n’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.\nDon’t you fall now—\nFor I’se still goin’\, honey\,\nI’se still climbin’\,\nAnd life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.\n\n\n\n\n\n________________________________ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/poetry-talks-prague-good-enough/ LOCATION:Kavárna Kaaba\, Kavárna Kaaba CATEGORIES:Book Club,Discussion,Poetry ORGANIZER;CN="Lydia Titterington":MAILTO:noreply@facebookmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260506T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260506T220000 DTSTAMP:20260513T191657 CREATED:20260505T105400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260505T110300Z UID:12860-1778097600-1778104800@pragueliterarycalendar.com SUMMARY:U konce s dechem (1960) - Francouzská nová vlna v Klubovně DESCRIPTION:🇫🇷 Francouzská nová vlna? Co to jeee?Tuhle otázku\, kterou si zajisté klade každý z nás\, vám zodpoví filmový klub v Klubovně. \nPromítáme U konce s dechem – legendární nestárnoucí debut Jeana-Luca Godarda. \nJednoduchý příběh o krádeži auta\, následné vraždě a útěku překvapuje formální vytříbeností a bezprostředním vyprávěním a fragmentárností. \nTéměř závratné tempo příběhu o přitažlivém rebelovi\, okouzlujícím a ležérním vrahu na útěku představuje odvetu mladé filmařské generace úzkoprsé společnosti… \nNeúnavný rebel a experimentátor Jean-Luc Godard posílá vycházející hvězdu Belmonda na osudnou štafetu v ulicích Paříže. \nPastiš filmových žánrů v originální filmové koláži-dekonstrukci. \nRežisér si nenuceně pohrává s žánrovými klišé a hlásí se k anarchistickému okouzlení zločinem\, sexem\, násilím. \nSotva se totiž Godardův hrdina nadechne\, pokud mu to závratné tempo a těkající kamera umožní\, již chcípá na bílé laině ulice. URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/u-konce-s-dechem-1960-francouzska-nova-vlna-v-klubovne/ LOCATION:Klubovna\, Klubovna CATEGORIES:Film END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260506T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260506T230000 DTSTAMP:20260513T191657 CREATED:20260505T104456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260505T110312Z UID:12813-1778097600-1778108400@pragueliterarycalendar.com SUMMARY:Toxic Therapy - Make your problems worse! Interactive Comedy Show in English DESCRIPTION:Veronika and Bianca are the two uncertified professionals you need to see. They probably can’t make you better\, but they will absolutely make you worse\, and somehow you’ll thank them for it. Join them at Toxic Therapy on May 6th at 7:00 PM at Metro Comedy Club for an English comedy show packed with bad advice\, brutal honesty\, and the kind of healing that leaves emotional scars. Come for the laughs\, stay for the regression. URL:https://pragueliterarycalendar.com/calendar/toxic-therapy-make-your-problems-worse-interactive-comedy-show-in-english/ LOCATION:Malostranské náměstí\, 118 00 Praha\, Česko\, Malostranské náměstí\, 118 00 Praha\, Česko CATEGORIES:Comedy,Performance ORGANIZER;CN="Lalalaughs Productions":MAILTO:noreply@facebookmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR